My Grandmother didn’t drive, so I often took her places she wanted or needed to go. We lived in Oshkosh, WI. Some of her family lived in Chippewa Falls, and Stanley, WI. Stanley was the homestead and is about 150 miles from Oshkosh with Chippewa Falls about 30 miles farther. One day we made plans to go to both cities. We had a beautiful day for our journey. We did have one small set back. A deer ran across in front of us and over the hood of my car. I clipped his legs and it landed on the other side. We went to the closest town and told the police, so they could get animal control. We thought that would be the funny part of our trip. The plan was to stop at Stanley first then on to Chippewa Falls. As we were traveling, I started asking Mama about something from the bible. Before we knew it we went right past Stanley and almost to Chippewa Falls. We both laughed so hard when we realized we missed our exit. We decided we may as well reverse our trip stopping in Chippewa Falls first then Stanley.
